Example of large-scale convective tendencies research


    This figure shows time series of vertically integrated apparent heat source Q1 (top) and apparent moisture sink Q2 (bottom) diagnosed from an array of rawinsonde measurements. The peak indicates a large convective event (water disappears, heat appears). Light dashed lines indicate estimates which differ by about as much as the uncertainty (mainly sampling error). The heavy line in each panel is the best estimate of just the dominant term in the equation: advection by large-scale vertical motion. All the other terms are essentially just noise and distraction for instantaneous estimates, although they represent real physical porocesses and do manage to rise above the noise when enough time averaging is used. (from Mapes, Ciesielski and Johnson 2004)

  • Lin, J., M.H. Zhang, and B.E. Mapes, 2004: Zonal momentum budget of the Madden-Julian oscillation: the source and strength of mechanical damping. JAS, submitted

  • Lin, J., Mapes, B.E., and M. Zhang, 2004: Radiation budget of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation. JAS, in press

  • Mapes, B.E., T.T. Warner, Mei Xu, and D.J. Gochis, 2004: Comparison of cumulus parameterizations and entrainment using domain-mean wind divergence in a regional model. JAS, in press

  • Mapes, B.E., P.E. Ciesielski, and R.H. Johnson, 2003: Sampling errors in rawinsonde-array budgets. JAS, 60, 2697-2714.

  • Lin, J., Mapes, B.E., M. Zhang, and M, Newman, 2003: Stratiform precipitation, vertical heating profiles, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. JAS, 61, 296-309.

  • Lee, M.-I., I.-S. Kang, and B.E. Mapes, 2003: Impacts of cumulus convection parameterization on aqua-planet AGCM simulations of tropical intraseasonal variability. JMSJ, 81, 963-992.

  • Lee, M.-I., I.-S. Kang, J.-K. Kim, and B.E. Mapes, 2001: Influence of cloud-radiation interaction on simulating tropical intraseasonal oscillation with an atmospheric general circulation model JGR, 106, pp 14219-14233

  • Mapes, B.E., and X. Wu, 2001: Convective eddy momentum tendencies in long cloud-resolving model simulations J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 517-526.

  • Mapes, B.E., 2000: Convective inhibition, subgridscale triggering, and stratiform instability in a toy tropical wave model. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1515-1535.

  • Mapes, B.E., 1998: The large-scale part of tropical mesoscale convective system circulations: a linear vertical spectral band model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 76, 29-55.

  • Mapes, B.E., 1997: What controls large-scale variations of deep convection?, in New insights and approaches to cumulus parameterization , ECMWF workshop proceedings Reading, U.K., November 1996, pp 157-165.

  • Mapes, B.E., 1997: Equilibrium vs. activation controls on large-scale variations of tropical deep convection . pp.321-358 in The physics and parameterization of moist convection , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 321-358.

  • Mapes, B.E., 1997: Mutual adjustment of mass flux and stratification profiles, pp.399-412 in The physics and parameterization of moist convection , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 399-412.

  • Mapes, B.E., and P. Zuidema, 1996: Radiative-dynamical consequences of dry tongues in the tropical troposphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 620-638.

  • Mapes, B.E., and R.A. Houze, Jr., 1995: Diabatic divergence profiles in tropical mesoscale convective systems. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 1807-1828.

  • Mapes, B.E., 1993: Gregarious tropical convection. J. Atm. Sci., 50, 2026-2037.